- New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for
downloading and installing extensions. A default package archive is
hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers.
- Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including
right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp.
- Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes).
- Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages.
- Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3,
ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2.
You can also find out about the important changes from:
C-h r m antinews RET
This provides a changelog in the opposite direction, which is entertaining:
For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about
downgrading to Emacs version 23.4. We hope you will enjoy the greater
simplicity that results from the absence of many Emacs 24.1 features.
- New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for downloading and installing extensions. A default package archive is hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers.
- Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
- Support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp.
- Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes).
- Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages.
- Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3, ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2.
This looks great. :)